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Giant jets of red lightning that shoot out into space
On August 4, 2024 intense thunderstorms erupted near Puerto Rico in the Caribbean with reports of something very strange — brief flashes of “red lightning” above the thunderclouds. By sheer chance, cameras used by astronomers in the Caribbean for recording …